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Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American Film industry in the early period of cinema. Unlike the Mickey Mouse series, to which it is a sister series, Silly Symphonies did not usually feature continuing characters. Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Donald Duck got his start in a Silly Symphonies cartoon (The Wise Little Hen, 1934), and Pluto's first appearance without Mickey Mouse was also in a Silly Symphonies cartoon (Just Dogs, 1932). Donald Duck is a cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. The Wise Little Hen is a Walt Disney 's Silly Symphonies Cartoon, based on the fairy tale The Little Red Hen. Pluto (formerly known as Pluto the Pup) is an Animated cartoon character made famous in a series of Disney short cartoons.

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About the series

The series was first distributed by Pat Powers from 1929 to 1930 and released by Celebrity Productions (1929 - 1930). The original basis of the cartoons was musical novelty, and the musical scores of the first cartoons were composed by Carl Stalling. [1] After viewing "The Skeleton Dance", the management at Columbia Pictures quickly became interested in distributing the series, and gained the perfect opportunity to acquire Silly Symphonies after Disney broke with Celebrity Productions head Pat Powers after Powers signed Disney's colleague Ub Iwerks to a studio contract. Ub Iwerks, ASC ( Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) ( 24 March 1901 &ndash 7 July 1971) was a two-time Academy Award winning As a matter of fact, Columbia Pictures (1930 - 1932) only picked up the distribution of the Mickey Mouse series on the condition that they would have exclusive rights to distribute the Silly Symphonies series; at first, Silly Symphonies could not even come close to the popularity Mickey Mouse had. }} Columbia Pictures Industries Inc is an American Film production and distribution company Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. The original title cards to the shorts released by Celebrity Productions and Columbia Pictures were all redrawn after Walt Disney stopped distributing his cartoons through them. Meanwhile, more competition spread for Disney after Max Fleischer's flapper cartoon character Betty Boop began to gain more and more popularity after starring in the cartoon Minnie the Moocher; by August of 1932, Betty Boop even became so popular, that the Talkartoon series was renamed as Betty Boop cartoons. Max Fleischer ( July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an important Austrian American pioneer in the development of the Betty Boop is an animated Cartoon character appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by " Minnie the Moocher " is a Jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra selling over 1 million copies In 1932, after falling out with Columbia Pictures, Disney began distributing his products through United Artists. This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. The original title cards on these shorts stated "Joseph M. Schenck Presents A Silly Symphony". When Disney began to distribute his cartoon with RKO Radio Pictures the title cards were all replaced with the words "Mickey Mouse presents a Silly Symphony"

Shortly after the switch to U/A, however, the series quickly became even more popular. Walt Disney had seen some of Dr. Herbert Kalmus' tests for a new three-strip, full-color Technicolor process, which would replace the previous, two-tone Technicolor process. An RGB color space is any additive Color space based on the RGB color model. Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation The RG or red-green color space is a Color space that uses only two colors Red and Green. Disney signed a contract with Technicolor which gave the Disney studio exclusive rights to the new three-strip process through the end of 1935, and had a 60% complete Symphony, Flowers and Trees, scrapped and redone in full color. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released Flowers and Trees was a phenomenal success, and within a year, the now-in-Technicolor Silly Symphonies series had popularity and success that matched (and later surpassed) that of the Mickey Mouse cartoons. The contract Disney had with Technicolor would also later be extended another five years as well. [2] The shorts began to have stronger plots too[3], and the success of Silly Symphonies would be tremendously boasted after The Three Little Pigs was released in 1933 would become a box office sensation; the film was featured in movie theaters for several months and also featured the hit song that became the anthem of the Great Depression, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf". [4] Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs (1933), The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934), The Tortoise and the Hare (1934), The Country Cousin (1936), The Old Mill (1937), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1938), and The Ugly Duckling (1939, with an earlier black and white version from 1931), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney. Three Little Pigs is an animated Short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney The Ant and the Grasshopper, also known as The Grasshopper and the Ant or The Grasshopper and the Ants, is a Fable attributed The Tortoise and the Hare is a Fable attributed to Aesop. French poet Jean de La Fontaine adapted into the poem "le lièvre et la The Old Mill is a 1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released to theatres The Ugly Duckling (Danish Den grimme Ælling) is a Fairy tale by Danish Poet and Author Hans Christian Andersen However, Disney ceased production of Silly Symphonies in 1939, as the studio began to focus on producing films and new series shorts. [5]

Within the animation industry, the Silly Symphonies series is most noted for its use by Walt Disney as a platform for experimenting with processes, techniques, characters, and stories in order to further the art of animation. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Among the innovations developed and/or improved upon in the series are Technicolor filmmaking, true and believable character animation, special effects animation, and dramatic storytelling in animation. Character animation is a specialized area of the Animation process concerning the animation of one or more characters featured in an animated work The illusions used in the Film, Television, Theater, or Entertainment industries to simulate the imagined events in a story are traditionally called Disney's experiments were widely praised within the film industry, and the Silly Symphonies won seven Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), maintaining a six-year-hold on the category after it was first introduced. The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year This record was matched only by MGM's Tom and Jerry series during the 1940s and 1950s. Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical Short subjects (cartoons created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Silly Symphonies brought along many imitators, including Warner Bros. cartoon series Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, and MGM's Happy Harmonies. Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros Animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969 Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros Happy Harmonies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising The television series Mickey Mouse Works used the Silly Symphonies title for some of its new cartoons, but unlike the original cartoons, these did feature continuing characters. Mickey Mouse Works is a television show that features the cartoon character Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animated segments Disney also produced comic strips and comic books with this title. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative

On December 3, 2001, Disney released "Silly Symphonies" as part of its DVD series "Walt Disney Treasures". Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The first wave of Walt Disney Treasures was released on December 4 2001 The "Walt Disney Treasures" are two-disc DVD sets of classic Disney works covering work from the studio's earliest days to more recent work On December 19, 2006, "More Silly Symphonies" was released, completing the collection and allowing the cartoons to be completely available to the public. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The sixth wave of Walt Disney Treasures was released on December 19 2006

Filmography

1929

1930

1931

Featuring Clarabelle Cow. Clarabelle Cow is a Fictional character created by Ub Iwerks in 1928 for Walt Disney.

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939


References

  1. ^ The Birth of the Silly Symphonies, by Russell Merritt and J.B. Kaufman
  2. ^ Glorious Technicolor 1932-1955
  3. ^ The Birth of the Silly Symphonies
  4. ^ Three Little Pigs at the Disney archives
  5. ^ Silly Symphonies at toonopedia.com
  6. ^ Toby Tortoise Returns (1936). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2006-01-13. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople. 888 - Odo Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks

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